Last year, people in Connecticut prisons paid $13.2 million for phone calls, 60% of which the private phone company then paid back to the state as a kickback. I wrote about the new bill trying to change that & make phone calls free for incarcerated people.

Theresa May didn't publicly break down over Windrush, or Grenfell, or disabled people having their benefits cut, or children driven into poverty.
In the end, she only publicly shed a tear over her own career.

Decades of research shows that allowing incarcerated people to stay in touch with their family is one of the most important ways to ensure successful reentry. But private phone companies wield an enormous amount of power and often prevent legislatures from changing the system.

The prison phone industry has grown into a $1.2 billion business and these private phone companies give huge kickbacks to states & municipalities across the country. There’s little incentive for states to reform a system that pays them millions of dollars to do business.

Last year, people in Connecticut prisons paid $13.2 million for phone calls, 60% of which the private phone company then paid back to the state as a kickback. I wrote about the new bill trying to change that & make phone calls free for incarcerated people.

"After 66 years in prison, Phillips is the state’s longest-serving inmate, a stooped and garrulous 85-year-old man whom inmates nicknamed Peanut and who gets around with the help of a worn wooden cane."

“Lady Liberty was originally designed to celebrate the end of slavery, not the arrival of immigrants. Ellis Island, the inspection station through which millions of immigrants passed, didn’t open until six years after the statue was unveiled in 1886.”

Today I had apple butter for the first time & I don’t know where you all have been hiding this life changing delicacy but I’m about to put apple butter on all my toasts, my bagels, my biscuits, I might even throw some in my grits this thing is so good

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Michelle Alexander writes, "I always knew the time would come when I would have to tell my daughters the truth: I was raped. And I had an abortion. One day, you may face these challenges too."

“It has been a high honor for the museum to play a part in bringing forward this story and to use it as a platform to reinforce a crucial truth: that the story of slavery and freedom is central to the nation’s story” -Lonnie G. Bunch, III
http://po.st/CI1fhX#APeoplesJourney

“The War on Drugs locked up thousands of black men, and a new study finds that it may have also locked many out of the college classroom—and all the benefits that come with a college degree.”
This new study by Tolani Britton connected the dots.